Re: USAGE: No rants! (USAGE: di"f"thong)

Citerar "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...>:

> On 5/30/06, wayne chevrier <wachevrier@...> wrote:
> > My idea goes like this:
> >
> >         <ux>    ->      <w>
> >         <j>     ->      <j>
> >         <jx>    ->      <zy> or <jy>
> >         <cx>    ->      <cy>
> >         <sx>    ->      <sy>
> >         <gx>    ->      <xy> or <gy>
> >                 <dz>         ->            <x>
>
> Beyond <ux> to <w>, which is already used by many people who otherwise
> use the -x digraphs, none of those feels like an improvement.
>
> Fine, since everyone is taking this seriously.  Lessee what we have:
>
> -x:    a b c  cx d e f g gx h hx i j jx k l m n o p r s sx t u w v z
> CXS: a b ts tS d e f g dZ h x  i j Z  k l m n o p r s S  t u w v z
>
> If I were going to change anything - which I am not proposing. I have
> no desire to become the creator of Idido or whatever! - I would first
> merge <k> and <hx> into a single phoneme; most of the words with <hx>
> have alternates with <k> anyway, and [k] is a common realization of
> [x] in languages which lack the latter sound.
>
> I would then divide all the affricates into their component
> stop+fricative sounds.  If we're going to be forced to use digraphs
> anyway, they might as well be digraphs that make logical sense.  Of
> course, you could then reanalyze the affricates as realizations of a
> two-phoneme set and poof!  No digraphs at all. :)
>
> Then we'd just need symbols for /S/ and /Z/ and we're done.  For maximum
> comprehensibility, I propose switching to <y> for /j/, then using <j>
> for /Z/.  Which leaves the question of what to use for /S/; I can see
> arguments for both <c> and <x> (the latter mostly in that it's used
> that way in some Asian transcription systems).  I choose c.
This is quite similar to a spelling reform of ol' Esperanto that Mark
Rosenfelder once suggested (and which I can't currently seem to find), except
he used 'x' for /S/.

Using 'x' for /S/ is common in Iberoromance, altho in Spanish it's gone >[x] and
mostly got respelt as 'j'. For reasons that should need little explanation, the
convention is also common in Mesoamerican languages.

I'm not aware of any language using 'c' for /S/, but I'd certainly not be
surprised if it is somewhere. It's /dZ/ in Turkish ...

                                                 Andreas

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